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by Tiriol
2022-05-13 05:24pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

Well, Russia managed to get Finnish President and Prime Minister both come out and officially state that they support speedy application for Nato membership.
by Tiriol
2022-03-04 01:39am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

With the considerable differences of a) Germany not actually using military force against Austria and b) Austrians actually being mostly OK with becoming part of the Reich. I'm saying that was what Putin expected to happen when he moved his military into Ukraine. Which created a host of problem for...
by Tiriol
2022-03-04 01:04am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

When the Nazis killed German Jews was it any less genocide because they had a common language? Is President Zelenskyy somehow less Ukrainian because his first language was Russian? It's not about language, it's not about descent, it's about national identity. Big difference is Russians primarily se...
by Tiriol
2022-02-24 01:03am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

Whelp. If nothing else it seems that trying to cozy up to NATO didn't do Ukraine any good. You mean was entirely justified. Really? How would you contend that has done Ukraine any good? I don't pretend to know what Putin would have done in an alternate time line where the Ukrainian government agree...
by Tiriol
2022-02-23 03:14am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

That's an entirely appropriate question to ask. Quite frankly that is the only appropriate question to ask. Complaining about Neo-Nazis and US imperialism is just moral cowardice in the face of aggression and only aids Russian fascism and nationalism in its project to re-build its former empire. Th...
by Tiriol
2022-02-22 09:08am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

That's an entirely appropriate question to ask. Quite frankly that is the only appropriate question to ask. Complaining about Neo-Nazis and US imperialism is just moral cowardice in the face of aggression and only aids Russian fascism and nationalism in its project to re-build its former empire. Wi...
by Tiriol
2022-02-22 07:34am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

And besides that, there is the still unanswered question of why this is our problem. That's an entirely appropriate question to ask. Quite frankly that is the only appropriate question to ask. Complaining about Neo-Nazis and US imperialism is just moral cowardice in the face of aggression and only ...
by Tiriol
2021-12-25 05:12pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

I am well aware of Nato not being a sovereign nation. However, Ukraine and other possible applicant nations are and Russia is demanding in a roundabout way that they have no right to seek out an alliance with forces that could defend them from Russia. If Russia wants a stable peace with Nato OR its...
by Tiriol
2021-12-20 10:55am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

Exactly WHY should Russia have a say in a sovereign nation’s security decisions? Nato can reject applications if it wants, but giving Russia any right to veto its neighbors’ decisions to join an alliance is nothing more than downplaying those countries’ quite legitimate concerns. NATO isn't a sover...
by Tiriol
2021-12-18 01:57am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

Seems like both Russia and a number of countries in Eastern Europe have legitimate concerns about their national security. Seems like the best way to resolve that for everyone involved would be to work out agreements about NATO's expansion that accommodate both instead of starting from a position o...
by Tiriol
2021-12-10 09:53am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border
Replies: 1943
Views: 246535

Re: Ukraine reacts to fears of Russian invasion as troops build up at the border

However, if the US and/or NATO countries hadn’t been so busy over the past few decades invading other countries (including democratic ones!) for their own strategic purposes maybe they’d have some moral high ground to stand on. Agreed. We no longer have the moral high ground we used to, and even th...
by Tiriol
2019-10-15 12:27am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

Now, I am going to ask very clearly. Defend your statement that I am a racist. Show how I am a racist. Go ahead. Otherwise I am going to ask the mods to intervene. I’m waiting. And I’m really expecting an answer that does not rely on some in itself a racist belief about my skin colour or nationalit...
by Tiriol
2019-10-15 12:24am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

Yeah, but the examples in these cases are a case of secession vs non secession. You can say China restricts speech in its territory, but its irrelevant when the speech in question is occurring in Western countries. Those people calling for free <insert region here> are still able to shout it in Wes...
by Tiriol
2019-10-14 03:03pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

YOU dragged the British Empire into this by talking about Imperial masters. Don't now go all high and mighty. And we know quite well that the proposed act of legislation would have helped Chinese authorities immensely and was done in their interest. Just saying "sucking up to Imperial masters!...
by Tiriol
2019-10-14 02:50pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

YOU dragged the British Empire into this by talking about Imperial masters. Don't now go all high and mighty. And we know quite well that the proposed act of legislation would have helped Chinese authorities immensely and was done in their interest. Just saying "sucking up to Imperial masters!...
by Tiriol
2019-10-14 02:10am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

Yeaaah... and how's that working out for Hong Kong right now, ths vaunted "China's really not bad, and BRITISH EMPIRE BAD, *I'm a smarmy asshole*? don't pay attention to the actual citizens protesting in millions" approach? You do realize that it was the Hong Kong local government that pr...
by Tiriol
2019-10-10 02:22am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them
Replies: 91
Views: 42424

Re: Blizzard stiffs and bans a Hong Kong supporter, wonders why people hate them

I don't really want to get into a whole "thing" here, but why is the only qualification for China doing anything "sending the army in"? That seems like a frightfully naive viewpoint. As is acting like Hong Kong is so autonomous that the police and governing authorities of it are...
by Tiriol
2019-10-10 01:46am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: THRAWN: TREASON coming out in July
Replies: 60
Views: 50054

Re: THRAWN: TREASON coming out in July

As mentioned, I mean at the time it was introduced, not that it outgunned every imperial remnant at the time of Thrawn's first campaign (which given that Byss with all its super-big wedgeships was a thing is obviously incorrect). It would still have been more than enough to make him amongst the mos...
by Tiriol
2019-10-08 02:03am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: THRAWN: TREASON coming out in July
Replies: 60
Views: 50054

Re: THRAWN: TREASON coming out in July

I never saw Thrawn as a 'likeably Nazi'. If anything, I'd call him a 'CULTURED' Nazi, and maybe 'OPEN-MINDED' Nazi. But 'likeable?' The only likeable Nazies are the ones going 'Are.. are we the baddies?' *By Open minded - He's open to new ideas, so long as they further his/the Empire's goals. Just ...
by Tiriol
2019-10-02 04:03am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: General Police Abuse Thread
Replies: 1066
Views: 498598

Re: General Police Abuse Thread

I get the whole "Kid MAY/MAY NOT have had gun, situation resolved fast, it was dark, etc etc" but this is straight up: "Dude murdered while eating ice-cream on his couch." If you can't convict on that, there really is no hope. And kudos for the jury not taking the Castle Doctrin...
by Tiriol
2019-09-23 02:06am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump Uses Foreign Aid to extort Ukraine
Replies: 4
Views: 5114

Re: Trump Uses Foreign Aid to extort Ukraine

Trump colludes, again, this time with added coercion. Naturally, Elfdart finds a way to spin this into downplaying the collusion in 2016, and attacking the Democrats. :roll: Anyway, impeachment is coming, with or without this. At the very least, I am fairly confident now that Nadler and the Judicia...
by Tiriol
2019-09-23 02:01am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Gun-advocates threaten civil war to protect their guns.
Replies: 354
Views: 159369

Re: Gun-advocates threaten civil war to protect their guns.

From what I have gathered, the American (US) culture of gun ownership is sick. I don't mind people owning or using guns. But I do know that if Finland would have the same level of gun brutality and mass shootings, I'd vote for any politician willing to take away those guns at least from those who ca...
by Tiriol
2019-09-18 02:17am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Three video game developers independently accused of sexual assault in one day.
Replies: 79
Views: 33891

Re: Three video game developers independently accused of sexual assault in one day.

One doesn't fix faulty systems by simply applying to them and doing nothing else. One way that one could fix a faulty system is to put pressure on it from the outside. It's not a red herring because the point is that the police neglect cases of rape and sexual assault and so relying on them for jus...
by Tiriol
2019-09-12 02:11am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Three video game developers independently accused of sexual assault in one day.
Replies: 79
Views: 33891

Re: Three video game developers independently accused of sexual assault in one day.

Do you guys know that the alternative to #MeToo isn't women remaining silent and relying entirely on the ever-feminist corporate HR systems and the police, who certainly don't have a massive backlog of untested rape kits, for justice, right? It's whisper networks and warnings. These are actually ev...
by Tiriol
2019-09-02 01:48am
Forum: History
Topic: Ancestor in Civil War
Replies: 18
Views: 32230

Re: Ancestor in Civil War

Curiously, apparently none of my direct forebears were involved in the Finnish Civil War (I should really check the family's written history, though). Which has had the blessing of not having any emotional stake in that part of Finnish history.

(title didn't really specify WHICH civil war :P )